Word: turnabout
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...environmentalists, of course, it's Bush's energy Rasputins who are the extremists - the sputtering economy and the California crisis are just the excuses. After the CO2 turnabout, Rep. George Miller, a California Democrat on the House Resources Committee, called Bush on the carpet...
...proposal to invite Yugoslav troops to help rein in Albanian nationalists appears to be a 180-degree turnabout for the Western alliance, that may be because NATO's original Kosovo intervention has failed to resolve the region's fundamental political problem. Nobody in the Balkans took particularly seriously the idea of a democratic multiethnic Kosovo championed by President Clinton and others, and no sooner had those Albanians driven out by Serb ethnic cleansing returned to the territory than KLA elements were launching their own ethnic cleansing campaign against Kosovo's remaining Serbs and other minorities as NATO for the most...
...commission--a city board with the authority to forbid construction--responded very positively to the shift, in a turnabout from the critical tone that had characterized previous meetings...
...take off last week, however, and the fate of Elian, the lad whose mother Elisabeth drowned while escaping Cuba, leaving him to float on an inner tube for two days, seemed further than ever from being resolved. In fact, Castro's turnabout panicked Miami like an air-raid siren, raising cold war tensions most Americans put behind them a decade ago. As a showdown loomed between the U.S. government and the politically potent and volatile exiles, Elian's welfare once again seemed the last thing on the minds of the Cuban leader and other political opportunists...
...failing such a dramatic turnabout, the writing is on the wall in the Elian Gonzalez case: Despite political maneuvering by the anti-Castro exiles and their allies on Capitol Hill; despite a battery of lawyers pursuing every loophole in the legal system; despite apocalyptic threats to turn Miami's Little Havana into another Waco, Elian Gonzalez looks set to return home to Castro's Cuba...